In one session she is able to accomplish what would take weeks of physical therapy and medication. I highly recommend that anyone with back pain give her a call. You won’t be disappointed.

Gavin and Stacy Newton

I am thrilled with the results of acupuncture and cannot recommend Shilpa highly enough. She has changed my life. She is a true healer.

Kyle Meadows

ACUPUNCTURE IS A HOLISTIC ALTERNATIVE TO TREAT PAIN

Pain is a sensation triggered in the nervous system. It may be sharp or dull, intermittent or steady, localized (like back pain) or generalized (like fibromyalgia). Occasionally pain can last for weeks, months, or even years, due to an ongoing condition (such as arthritis) or due to abnormal activity in pain-sensing regions of the brain.Acupuncture is effective in treating acute as well as chronic musculoskeletal pain like:

Researchers from the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine analyzed 33 studies covering more than 2,100 patients from around the world on acupuncture for low back pain. They found acupuncture provided definite pain relief for three weeks after the end of the acupuncture sessions. (http://www.umm.edu/news/releases/back_pain.htm)

Studies on Acupuncture and Arthritis

The world’s longest and largest clinical trials conducted by The National Institutes of Health to investigate the efficacy of acupuncture showed that Acupuncture can reduce pain and improve mobility in arthritis patients by 40 percent.

A total of 570 patients aged 50 and older with osteoarthritis of the knee took part in this American study. All had suffered significant pain in their knee the month before joining the trial, but had never experienced acupuncture.

By the eighth week, genuine acupuncture patients showed a significant increase in function compared with both the sham treatment and self-help groups. By week 14, they were also experiencing a significant decrease in pain. (http://nccam.nih.gov/research/results/acu-osteo.htm )

In another study 25 percent of arthritis patients who had been scheduled for knee surgery canceled their operations after acupuncture treatment. (Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology 1997)

In this Scandinavian study, researchers compared acupuncture with advice and exercise for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the hip. Thirty-two patients awaiting a total hip replacement were separated into 2 groups. One group received one 10-minute and five 25-minute sessions of acupuncture, and the other group received advice and hip exercises over a 6-week period.

Patients in the acupuncture group showed significant improvements, while no significant changes were reported in the group that received advice and exercise therapy.

Effectiveness of acupuncture as adjunctive therapy in osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomize, controlled trial.